ASMC'09 Kiev

Remark:
Poster Session 1 = odd numbers
Poster Session 2 = even numbers

23/08/2009
14:00Registration
19:30Welcome reception
24/08/2009
08:30Opening
09:10Morning Session
Session Chair
Dr Scott A. BILLER
(AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS, Cambridge, United States)
09:10The Metalated Flatland Conduit to New Synthetic Aromatics and Heteroaromatic Chemistry
Prof. Victor SNIECKUS
(QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, Ontario, Canada)
09:50C-H Activation: Direct Arylation and Alkenylation of Oxazoles
Dr. Florence MAHUTEAU
(INSTITUT CURIE, ORSAY, France)
10:05Coffee-break
10:45Orally Active, Brain Penetrant Beta-Secretase (BACE) Inhibitors: Consolidating Property-Based and Structure-Based Drug Design
Dr. Stephen HITCHCOCK
(AMGEN INC, Thousand Oaks, United States)
11:25From Structures to Systems: Structure Based Design of Therapeutics and Imaging Probes
Dr. Ulrich WENDT
(SANOFI AVENTIS, Frankfurt, Germany)
12:05Structure-Activity Relationships and Cancer-Cell Selective Toxicity Of Novel Inhibitors of Glioma-Associated Oncogene Homolog 1 (Gli1)-Mediated Transcription
Dr Naoaki FUJII
(ST.JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL, Memphis, United States)
12:20Molecular Recognition at the Active Site of Catechol-O-Methyl Transferase (COMT): Energetically Favorable Expulsion of a Single Water Molecule with Novel Bisubstrate Inhibitors.
Mr Manuel ELLERMANN
(ETH ZURICH, Zurich, Switzerland)
12:35Lunch and Poster Session 1
14:00Afternoon Session
Session Chair
Prof. Victor SNIECKUS
(QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, Ontario, Canada)
14:00Bio-Inspired Organocatalysis: From Concepts to Applications in Heterocycle Synthesis
Prof. Magnus RUEPING
(RWTH AACHEN, Aachen, Germany)
14:40Discovery of Ixempratm (ixabepilone), an Epothilone Analogue for Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer
Dr. Gregory VITE
(BMS, Princeton, United States)
15:20Design and Synthesis of Novel Polyketide Molecular Frameworks to Access Natural Product-Like Protein-Protein Interaction Inhibitors as Novel Chemotherapeutic Agents
Dr Giovanna ZINZALLA
(CANCER RESEARCH UK - THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, London, United Kingdom)
15:35Coffee-break and Poster Session 1
16:05Compound Collection Enhancement (CCE): Increasing Quality and Size of the AZ Compound Collection
Dr. Kay BRICKMANN
(ASTRA ZENECA, Mölndal, Sweden)
16:45Approach to the Synthesis of Pycnanthuquinone C by Gold(I)-Catalyzed Cyclization of 1,5-Enynes
Ms NURIA HUGUET
(INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA, Tarragona, Spain)
17:25C-H: A New Functional Group for Streamlining Synthesis
Prof. Christina WHITE
(UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, United States)
18:05Closing of the day
25/08/2009
08:30Morning Session
Session Chair
Dr Edmond DIFFERDING
(UCB, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium)
08:30Development and Applications of New Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions
Prof. Jonathan A. ELLMAN
(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, United States)
09:10Case Histories of Fragment Based Discovery: from Crystal to Clinic
Dr David REES
(ASTEX THERAPEUTICS, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
09:50Design and synthesis of polyfluoroalkyl-containing purine isosters and phospha-purines as a potential Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) and Inosine 5’-monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) inhibitors
Dr Dmytro VOLOCHNYUK
(ENAMINE, Kyiv, Ukraine)
10:05Coffee-break and Poster Session 1
10:45The Fight against AIDS. The "Old" Reverse Transcriptase (RT) and the "New" DDX3
Prof. Maurizio BOTTA
(UNIVERSITY OF SIENA, Siena, Italy)
11:25Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions: Bcl-2 Family Protein Inhibitors to Treat Cancer
Dr. Steve ELMORE
(ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Abbott Park, United States)
12:05Discovery Biology Fueled with Synthetic Chemicals
Prof. Patrick G. HARRAN
(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, United States)
12:45Lunch & Poster session 1
14:00Afternoon Session: Business Mini-Symposium
Session Chair
Dr Gene VAISBERG
(CHEMBRIDGE CORPORATION, San Diego, United States)
14:05Compound Screenings in Model Plants to Identify New Agrochemicals: Strengths and Limitations
Dr. Dominique AUDENAERT
(GHENT UNIVERSITY, GHENT, Belgium)
14:20Creating a medicinal chemistry created screening library
Dr. Peter BEAN
(CYTOKINETICS, South San Francisco, United States)
14:35Optimization of a Small Molecule Screening Library to support HTS Campaigns Across Diverse Therapeutic Areas and Target Classes
Dr. Andrew.J. GARTON
(OSI PHARMACEUTICALS, Framingdale, United States)
14:50Strategies Toward The Establishment and Evolution of a CNS Focused Small Molecule Screening Collection
Dr. Kevin HODGETTS
(GALENEA, CAMBRIDGE, United States)
15:05Small Molecule Screening Libraries in Drug Discovery: Today & Tomorrow
Dr. Duncan JUDD
(GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Essex, United Kingdom)
15:20JHICC - When Vast Chemical Diversity Meets Ion Channel Targets
Dr Min LI
(JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL, Baltimore, United States)
15:35Coffee-break
15:50Navigating the NIH Roadmap - Building a Screening Collection for Discovery of Biological Probes
Dr. Victor PANCHENKO
(BIOFOCUS, San Francisco, United States)
16:05Kinase Inhibitors in Compound Collection of Life Chemicals
Dr. Alexander POKHOLENKO
(LIFE CHEMICALS, Ukraine)
16:20Chemically Validated Combinatorial Approach to Large Libraries of Individual Drug Like Compounds
Dr. Aleksandr SHIVANYUK
(MACROCHEM, Kiev, Ukraine)
16:35Scaffold-based Libraries: It’s design and applications
Dr. Bernd WENDT
(EMBL HEIDELBERG, Heidelberg, Germany)
16:50Out-Sourcing Of Small Molecule Screening Libraries: Lessons From The Past, View Into The Future
Dr Gene VAISBERG
(CHEMBRIDGE CORPORATION, San Diego, United States)
17:05Q & A
17:30Closing of the day
26/08/2009
08:30Morning Session
Session Chair
Prof. Valery P. KUKHAR
(INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND PETROCHEMISTRY, Kyiv, Ukraine)
08:30The Chemistry of DNA Repair and DNA Lesion Tolerance
Prof. Thomas CARELL
(LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITY MUNICH, Munich, Germany)
09:10Design of BCR-Abl Kinase Inhibitors to Treat Imatinib-Resistant Leukaemia
Dr Paul W. MANLEY
(NOVARTIS PHARMA, Basel, Switzerland)
09:50SQUIRRELnovo: De Novo Design of a PPARalpha Agonist by Bioisosteric Replacement
Dr Ewgenij PROSCHAK
(UNIVERSITÄT FRANKFURT, Frankfurt a. M., Germany)
10:05Coffee-break
10:45Discovery of PF-610355: An Inhaled Once-daily Beta-2 Adrenoceptor Agonist for Asthma & COPD
Mr. Paul GLOSSOP
(PFIZER GLOBAL R&D, Sandwich Kent, United Kingdom)
11:25Discovery of NVP-BEZ235, a New Anti-Cancer Drug Candidate Targeting the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Pathway
Dr. Frédéric STAUFFER
(NOVARTIS INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Basel, Switzerland)
12:05Conformational Restriction as a Design Concept for Unnatural Amino Acids
Prof. Igor KOMAROV
(KIEV TARAS SHEVCHENKO UNIVERSITY, Kiev, Ukraine)
12:20Directed Evolution of Enzymes: New Biocatalysts for Organic Synthesis'
Prof. Nicholas John TURNER
(UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, Manchester, United Kingdom)
13:00Lunch and Poster Session 2
Free afternoon
27/08/2009
08:30Morning Session
Session Chair
Prof. Gerhard ECKER
(UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria)
08:30A Small Molecule with a Big Impact: Inspirations from Proline Catalysis
Prof. Benjamin LIST
(MAX PLANCK INSTITUT, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany)
09:10The Structure Based Design of Potent, Selective BACE1 Inhibitors as Potential Disease Modifying Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease
Dr Al ROBICHAUD
(SAGE, Princeton, United States)
09:50Chiral Imidates: A New Class of Nitrogen-Based Chiral Ligands.
Prof. Johan VAN DER EYCKEN
(UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
10:05Coffee-break and Poster Session 2
10:45Orexin Receptor Antagonists – A New Therapeutic Principle in CNS Disorders?
Dr Christoph BOSS
(IDORSIA PHARMACEUTICALS LTD, Allschwil, Switzerland)
11:25Guanidinium Toxins: Unique Natural Products in both Form and Function
Prof. Justin DU BOIS
(STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, United States)
12:05Cation–Pi Interactions in the S4 Pocket of Factor Xa: Dramatic Enhancement upon N-Alkylation of Ammonium Ions
Ms Laura Maria SALONEN
(ETH ZURICH, Zurich, Switzerland)
12:20Lunch and Poster Session 2
14:00Afternoon Session
Session Chair
Prof. Erick M. CARREIRA
(ETH ZÜRICH, Zürich, Switzerland)
14:00Small Molecule Drug Discovery in the Modern World
Dr Michael VARNEY
(GENENTECH, South San Francisco, United States)
14:40Synthesis of Fluorine Containing Amino Acids with Biological Interest
Prof. Valery P. KUKHAR
(INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND PETROCHEMISTRY, Kyiv, Ukraine)
15:20Building Molecular Complexity via Gold Catalysis
Prof. Antonio M. ECHAVARREN
(INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain)
16:00Coffee-break
16:40The Discovery of the Oral Antifungal Agent Albaconazole: a Case History
Dr. Xavi BARTROLI
(PALAU PHARMA, Palau de Plegamans, Spain)
17:10New Catalytic Strategies for Chemical Synthesis
Prof. Matthew GAUNT
(UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
17:50Closing Remarks
20:00Symposium banquet
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